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Growing up Latino : memoirs and stories / edited with an introduction by Harold Augenbraum and Ilan Stavans ; foreword by Ilan Stavans.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS647.M58 G76 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Hispanic American authors.
- American fiction.
- Hispanic American youth--Fiction.
- Hispanic American youth.
- Hispanic Americans--Biography.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Short stories, Spanish.
- Autobiography.
- Autobiographies as Topic.
- autobiography (genre).
- Short stories, American.
- Medical Subjects:
- Autobiographies as Topic.
- Genre:
- Autobiography.
- Short story genre.
- short stories.
- Fictional autobiographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 348 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1993]
- Summary:
- A comprehensive collection of Latino writing of fiction and nonfiction works in English.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Imagining the family. Daughter of invention / Julia Alvarez
- The Mambo Kings play songs of love / Oscar Hijuelos
- Silent dancing / Judith Ortíz-Cofer
- The moths / Helena María Viramontes
- Un hijo del sol / Genaro Gonzalez
- An apology to the moon furies / Edgardo Vega Yunqué
- The ruins / Patricia Preciado Martin
- The closet / Denise Chávez
- Gringolandia. Alien turf / Piri Thomas
- The day the Cisco Kid shot John Wayne / Nash Candelaria
- Mr. Mendelsohn / Nicholasa Mohr
- On the road to Texas : Pete Fonseca / Tomás Rivera
- Kipling and I / Jesús Colón
- The Hammon and the beans / Américo Paredes
- Pocho / José Antonio Villareal
- The autobiography of a brown buffalo / Oscar "Zeta" Acosta
- Songs of self-discovery. First communion / Edward Rivera
- Brother Imás / Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
- Golden glass / Alma Villanueva
- My father's flag / J.L. Torres
- Being mean / Gary Soto
- People should not die in June in south Texas / Gloria Anzaldúa
- The monkey garden / Sandra Cisneros
- The apple orchard / Rudolfo A. Anaya
- Aria / Richard Rodriguez.
- Notes:
- "A Marc Jaffe book."
- "Mariner books"--Spine.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-341).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Growing up Latino.
- ISBN:
- 039562231X
- 9780395622315
- 0395661242
- 9780395661246
- OCLC:
- 26547395
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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